For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a gigantic asteroid hit can destroy the entire planet. If we prepare now, we better our odds of survival. The dinosaurs never knew what hit them.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people - in spite of people's social standing or net worth or whatever it is - the sooner it will stop.

Real talent is mixing realism with bluff. Every great artist I really respect has a certain amount of bluff; sooner or later you have to be a conjurer, and conjure images.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'